Role: Safety. Health & Wellbeing Lead
Location: Port Melbourne, VIC
Employment Type: Full time permanent
The Safety, Health and Wellbeing Lead provides operational leadership, technical oversight and performance direction for the Safety Partners.
The role plays a critical leadership function in stakeholder engagement, working collaboratively across operational and support functions to align safety expectations with operational and legislative realities. Through structured consultation and recurring engagement with leaders and frontline teams, the Lead ensures that workplace insights inform continuous improvement and harmonisation of safety practices. This collaborative approach strengthens shared accountability, enhances control effectiveness and ensures implementation remains practical, consistent and grounded in the realities of early learning operations.
Applying strategic thinking within defined system parameters, the Lead identifies implementation drift, recurring themes and emerging risk patterns, working with operational leaders to resolve barriers,
harmonise practice and strengthen risk control effectiveness
Your Impact:
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Lead and manage the Safety Partners, setting clear priorities, performance expectations and structured work allocation aligned to organisational risk priorities.
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Translate enterprise safety strategy into coordinated operational delivery across centres, ensuring alignment between safety objectives and operational realities.
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Build strong cross-functional relationships with organisational leaders, and other support functions to understand the business and promote consistent system application.
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Oversee significant investigations to ensure the analysis is robust and corrective actions are operationalised, and are sustainable.
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Ensure consistent and accurate interpretation of WHS legislation, codes of practice and organisational standards – maintaining and assessing changes against existing organisational practice.
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